What can we do with ASP

ASP i.e. Active Server Pages are web pages that contain server-side scripts which includes text as well as HTML tags. Server-side scripts are special commands that we put in web pages that are processed before the pages are sent from the server to the web browser of someone who is visiting our website. ASP is open and compile-free application component in which we can combine HTML, scripts and reusable ActiveX server components to create dynamic and powerful web-based business solutions. With the help of ASP we can display date, time and other information in different ways.

•  We can also make a survey form and ask people who visits our site, send emails or can save the information to a file, etc.
• We can have a database through which people can access via web.
• We can also make our website password-protected and only some users can use the personal informationof our website.

To run ASP we need Microsoft Internet Information service and Personal web sever. IIS can only run on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 professional and Windows 2000 server. Personal web server is a stripped-down version of IIS and supports most of the features of ASP. It can run on all windows platforms including windows 95,98 and Me